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Space and time are the focus of Hiroyuki Masuyama’s art. He condenses these complex concepts with methodic detailed work into sensual compositions. These compositions play with the viewer's perception, leading them to a world that can be circumnavigated through a blink / a meadow blooming in spring, summer and autumn flowers blossoming besides snowy grass / the works of the famous epoch-makers of art history regroup in the temporal reality of their residing. As a good method, in order to realise this, the artist calls this traveling…. A method that keeps with the meaning of the word diversity.

Masuyama was born in Tsukuba, Japan, in 1968. Masuyama studied painting and mural painting at the Academy of Fine Arts and Music in Tokyo from 1987 to 1993. As a DAAD scholarship holder, in 1995 Masuyama went to the Art Academy of Dusseldorf, and changed his studies in 1999 into studying media art at the Academy of Media Arts in Cologne. It was here that Masuyama availed his early compositio Biography of barack obama.